Afghanistan, today’s suicide attack inside the Al-Fatah Mosque in the complex of the Interior Ministry buildings

KABUL – The hospitalization toll is 20 wounded, 2 of whom died Surgical Center for War Victims from EMERGENCY in Kabul following the Afghan suicide attack that took place today at 1.45 pm inside the Al-Fatah Mosque in the complex of the buildings of the Ministry of the Interior in the capital. After the attack in the Kaj educational center, which took place on September 30, which caused over 50 deaths, mostly students, it is the second wave of mass hospitalizations managed within a few days by the hospital of the Organization founded by Gino Strada in the capital, but they are already 23 since the beginning of the year.

The increase in injuries in minutes. “Around two in the afternoon we began to receive some patients in our hospital, but we had not received any news of an attack – explains Dejan Panic, coordinator of EMERGENCY in Afghanistan – in the course of a few minutes, the number of injuries increased and the patients told of a suicide attack caused by the explosion of a BBIED (Body Borne Improvised Explosive Device). So far we have received 20 injured, all adult men, of which 16 patients admitted, 2 deaths on arrival and 2 injured treated in the emergency room. Unfortunately, the number could increase again in the next few hours and we could receive patients from other nearby structures ”.

Violence increased after August 2021. After August 2021, in fact, the attacks in the capital continued. According to UNAMA – the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan to assist the Afghan people, established in March 2002 by the UN Security Council – in the period between mid-August 2021 and mid-June 2022 there were 2,106 civilian victims (700 dead, 1,406 injured) of attacks attributable to armed groups. EMERGENCY during this year he managed in his Surgical Center for War Victims in Kabul 23 mass hospitalizations for a total of over 300 patients.

In 1 year 16,000 hospitalizations, 90% victims of war. One year after the abandonment of international forces and the establishment of the Taliban government in Afghanistan, the medical-humanitarian organization has registered more than 16,000 hospitalizations in Kabul, Lashkar-gah and Anabah hospitals; 3,000 admissions in Kabul alone, where more than 90% were still victims of war. These are the numbers of the association’s hospitals in a country that is now close to collapse with more than 23 million[3] of Afghans at risk of severe food insecurity, a devastating economic crisis, rising poverty, crime and the need for essential services.